INDIANA UNIVERSITY INFORMED CONSENT STATEMENT FOR RESEARCH
College and University Teaching Environment Survey
Study #2007598809 | IRB Approval Date: August 21, 2020
We cordially invite you to participate in the College and University Teaching Environment Survey. The information you and other instructional staff members on your campus provide will help identify areas of strength and improvement in providing supportive environments for quality teaching. More specifically, this project collects data about faculty support, needs, and motivations to help institutions looking to improve the ways in which they support their faculty as well as promote discussion between higher education scholars working to improve inequities within the professoriate. After reading the information on this page, if you agree to take part in this survey, you may proceed with responding to the questionnaire.
Your institution and researchers at the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University Bloomington have partnered to conduct this work. If you agree to be in the study, you will complete a survey that takes approximately 15 minutes. You may choose not to take part in the study or may choose to leave the study at any time. Deciding not to participate, or deciding to leave the study later, will not result in any penalty or loss of benefits and will not affect your relationship at the university. If you decide to participate in this study, you can change your mind and decide to leave the study at any time. The study team will help you withdraw from the study safely. If you decide to withdraw, email cutesurv@iu.edu.
While participating in the study, there is a risk that you might be uncomfortable answering the questions and there is a risk of loss of confidentiality. You will not receive any direct benefit from taking part in this study, but you will be helping the investigators learn things that will help higher education institutions improve their quality. You will not receive payment for participating in this study, and there is no cost to you for taking part in this study.
We will make efforts to keep your personal information confidential, but we cannot guarantee absolute confidentiality. If required by law, we may disclose your personal information. We will not share any information which could identify you in publications about this study. We will share deidentified survey responses with your institution. Organizations that may inspect and/or copy your research records for quality assurance and data analysis include groups such as the study investigator and their research associates, the Indiana University Institutional Review Board or its designees, and state or federal agencies who may need to access the research records (as allowed by law).
If you have technical problems completing the survey or have questions about the survey, please contact the study director, Allison BrckaLorenz, Ph.D. by email (cutesurv@iu.edu). For questions about your rights as a research participant, to discuss problems, complaints, or concerns about a research study, or to obtain information or to offer input, please contact the IU Human Subjects Office at 800-696-2949 or at irb@iu.edu.
In consideration of all the above, I give my consent to participate in this research study by completing the survey instrument. I agree to take part in this study.